Abstract
The Beer-Lambert law (also known as Beer's law or Lambert-Beer law) correlates the absorption of light or other electromagnetic waves, as they pass through an object, with the thickness of the object and the amount and absorbing properties of the substances contained therein. This law accounts for the color of the sea and, at the same time, allows anesthesiologists and intensivists to monitor arterial oxygen saturation by means of pulse oximeters. Moreover, capnographers and inhaled anesthetic analyzers rely on it.
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Pisano, A. (2017). Light, Air Pollution, and Pulse Oximetry: The Beer-Lambert Law. In Physics for Anesthesiologists (pp. 117–127). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57330-4_13
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